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Eduroam in Slovenia for Linux wicd client

After year and a half on Faculty of Electrical Engineering, I have managed to get working Eduroam WPA enterprise encryption on wicd networking client for GNU Linux (pretty good alternative to NetworkManager, but with Unix philosophy in mind). Here is wicd encryption template for wpa_supplicant: name = eap-ttls (Eduroam sl) version = 1 require anon_identity *Anonymous_Identity ca_cert *Path_to_CA_Cert identity *Identity password *Password ---- eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant network={ ssid="$_ESSID" scan_ssid=$_SCAN proto=WPA WPA2 key_mgmt=WPA-EAP group=CCMP TKIP eap=TTLS mixed_cell=1 peerkey=1 phase2="auth=PAP" ca_cert="$_CA_CERT" anonymous_identity="$_ANON_IDENTITY" identity="$_IDENTITY" password="$_PASSWORD" } Cacert is actually not needed, but if I understand correctly it provides encryption for data traffic. Here is full procedure how to get eduroam working with wicd:

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